The old Chinatown. My paternal grandfather told me there was a Chinatown on York street when he arrived in 1918. Someone, somewhere, has a picture(s) in a shoebox; there sure aren't any on the internet. Among my first memories: I remember holding someones hand and being very tired and being...

20 minutes work around the New City Hall and Eaton Centre area this Sunday afternoon Oct 18 and here is a whole bunch of Then and Nows for everyone. I'm going to real economical in comment here and not actually write any; I'm up very late. I think the usual suspects around this thread know by...

Thank you DSC, but I think you meant flounder. :)

The University Theatre: It will always be a mystery to me how the original façade was left standing for quite some time, only to be taken down and a simulacrum built in its place, which still exists.

Hey Goldie, thank you. I hope to be busier here in future. The Archive's description for the Then photo is: "4D's / Flo's restaurant, 10 Bellair at Critchley Lane". I went by the description; I hadn't even noticed the sign on the restaurant. I was busy looking at, and mourning the...

'Flo's Diner'. Bellair, west side, just south of Cumberland. 1980s - ish. Have I 'done' this one already? I can't remember. I've always had a mental image of this old Toronto Archives picture in my head. A charming place that little diner. I never ate there but wished I had. In the past...

That cornerstone is half buried... well seen Goldie!

Food Trux at Twilight.

Then. 1956 - 1981. Lost hotel. NE corner of King and University. The Lord Simcoe Hotel. Now. July 29 2015. http://www.oldnyc.org/ http://petapixel.com/2015/05/14/photographer-reshoots-some-of-the-oldest-surviving-photos-of-new-york/#more-165495

Wonderful. The Then photographer may have expended many plates to get the timing just so.

111 Elizabeth Street. BOOM. http://www.leedickson.ca/story-of-a-building.html Portland, WA. Then and Now Vimeo.

Last week. Enough wires criss crossing this picture for you? Note the postcard printer airbrushed them out of the Then pic. Those old tyme telephone poles are always a nice touch. :) And the disappeared fire escape; that's progress for you. I guess in this day and age we have no need to...

Then 117 Dundas Street W. I'm guessing 1980-ish. I'd forgotten about this stretch of Dundas until I saw the picture. I had walked along it enough times in my youth. Now. July 2015...

Then.. 1965. Dundas W looking W from Elizabeth. "Ladies Entrance"; a quaint photographic echo from the past. "China Trading Co.". I can still picture the owner weighing roots and herbs on a hand held scale. The west wall of the store was completely covered in small drawers labeled in...

Thank you sonny! Oi.

Then 1972. I only posted this because of the neat-o Camaro. Wish I had one of those. Gray is a great colour too. Now. July 2015. One could do a Then and Now of Krispy Kreme's entry, expansion and contraction/retrenchment in Canada. One for the case studies at biz school...

Then. 1966. Before the Bloor subway was built, one travelled east west across Toronto by streetcar... it must have been a long trip from say, Keele, to Yonge. But I suppose no different than todays trip along Queen street from the Humber to Yonge. Now. July 2015.

Then. Sutton Place Hotel. Promotional picture. Can anyone date the Rolls Royce? Sutton Place opened in 1967. Now. Early evening July 14, 2015.

ok... the movie at the Alhambra was "Pardners"; released on July 25, 1956. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardners

Then. Bloor and Bathurst looking west at night. Honest Eds in the left distance; the now gone Alhambra theatre in the right distance. The website I grabbed this from cited a date of 1956 but it feels more 1962-ish to me.. going by the style/architecture of the cars. I wish I could identify...